Big spring brookie

Post by **SALMON** » Sat May 07, 2005 10:16 pm

A friend of mine returned from stream fishing south of Owen Sound . HIs target had been speckeled/brook trout. While he caught several 12" ones the largest came off a spinner cast from road side into the creek..4lbs of niceness.

Post by **Markus** » Sat May 07, 2005 11:29 pm

That would be a great surprise! I haven't seen a big brookie in a long time. That's a beauty!

Post by **Wall-I-Guy** » Sun May 08, 2005 4:58 am

Now that's a beauty for sure..in anyone's book

Post by **big-o** » Sun May 08, 2005 8:30 am

Thats a great looking brookie, I'll bet his heart skipped a beat when he saw that fish coming in

Post by **Xenos** » Sun May 08, 2005 9:08 am

WTG Salmon And I though a 4lb Brooke was an urban ledged.

Post by **moondog** » Sun May 08, 2005 9:43 am

Now that is an awesome speck!!!

Post by **Matt M** » Sun May 08, 2005 3:06 pm

That is a huge brookie! I can't believe that was caught south of owen sound, I thought specks that big were only a thing of the far north around superior. Beautiful fish!

Post by **wolfe** » Sun May 08, 2005 7:40 pm

Sure beats the little ones people seem to be catching here! What a girth!

W.

Post by **ganman** » Sun May 08, 2005 9:26 pm

I'm sure I will get called some names for this and so be it. But you say that fish came from a creek? Near Owen Sound?

If the creek runs into Georgian Bay then what you may have is a Coaster Brook trout which is rare in Great Lakes south of Superior, though its a little early to find one of those running a creek. Usually they show up later in the year.

Otherwise call me skeptical that your friend lucked into the largest resident Brookie caught out of a southern Ontario creek in at least 50 years OR maybe ever! I want to be precise here I am saying stream/creek not pond. On most creeks a 12" brookie is a nice fish. Anything larger is exeptional.

That trout looks way to fat to have lived its life in a southern Ontario creek.

Doubting Thomas here........Sorry.

Post by **SALMON** » Sun May 08, 2005 9:42 pm

i can assure you it is a stream trout and he had several other 12" ones with it. I have fished with him since I was 10 yrs old..hmmmmmm thats about 38 yrs of fishing with him then. Never a tall tail that wasnt backed by proof and a man of his word. Could the trout have escaped out of a pond some where..I suppose..but it was in a stream and caught on a spinner.

Post by **GreenBastard** » Mon May 09, 2005 6:18 am

I have caught two nice brookies in the norfolk area one in 1976, that was 18 inch, and one about 5 years ago that are 17". One out of a 3 foot wide stream and another at big creek near a dam.

Nice Brookie, Good eating

Post by **Carl** » Mon May 09, 2005 7:00 am

Now that's a nice brookie!

Post by **TroutSlayer** » Mon May 09, 2005 8:56 pm

Very nice fish indeed! My father has stocked ponds and every spring he looses a few of the big breaders in the runoff. That fish has the shape of a pond (still water) brookie. But, I guess you never know! It could be that a beaver dam washed out upstream and he was the resident pond monster. It just doesn't have the streamlined build of a speck that's worked current all it's life. Nice fish though, great catch.

Post by **girl-fisher** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:58 pm

Nice fish!! I grew up in that neck of the woods.